The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-05-12
Miscellaneous News Items.

Miscellaneous News Items.
The following pensions have besra grant
ed: Minnesota-Originals: j. lxsolack,
Elgin; F.S. Sawyer, New York Mills. In
crease: J. NJ. Stevens, G1enville. ~Reissue:
| w. Whitford, Henderson,; J. u. Winters,
Candy. Dakota Increase: j. w. Weiss.
Watertown; w. G. Cook, Bijoa Hills; j.
Gilbert Huron.
The preliminary examination OF E. T..
a. Simons, late manage OF the Hotel Del
Monte, charged with having set the hotel
on fire, concluded at Monterey. Cal. he
was held in $25, 900 bail.
The following is given as a list of men
who were indicted by the United States
grand jury at st. Louis. for committing
election frauds last fall: State Sena-
tor F. H. Ketchum, Central Com
mitteeman James Carol, Deputy Sher-
if Conner, Supervisors John Chamber
lin and Robert E. Lee, ex-delegate of the
municipal assembly, Peter Morrissey, Depu-
ty Constables James Conway and Andrew
Bloom, William Borgess., Fred j. Leinert-
Patrick E. Golden and Henry Mutually.
Private advices from Paris have reached
Baltimore that Cardinal Gibbons, who was
not expected to sail for America until the
latter part of August, will return at once.
Ostensibly the motive for this sudden re.
turn is illness, but there are other reasons
beneath the surface. It is said that some
OF the American archbishops do not an.
prove the cardinals course in regard to
the Knights OF Labor, and a council OF
archbishops will be called to meet the car
dinal in that city and discuss the question.
The certainty of more railroads to Bis.
marck, Oak, this year, has added an inn
petus to real estate.
David Preston, the late Michigan prohi.
bition leader, left a fortune of $500, 600.
James Hit, q homesteader living alone
on his farm, was burned to death at Bay
field, Wis., in his house. -
Fred Stole. arrested in Cleveland Tor the
murder OF Maggie Mccarthy, has been dis
charged from custody, having proved his
innocence. /
James D. Westcot, ex-associate Justice
OF the Florida supreme court, died at Tai.
lahassee. He was a son Of Florida first
United States senator. =
A woman named Elmira s. Lenker, Of
Snowvllle, Pulaski county, Virginia, was
arraigned for the distribution of obscene
matter through the mails. She b zenly
admitted every allegation against her.
The documents received by Mr.. Barclay,
postoffice inspector, through his decoy
correspondence, were recognized as genu-
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The commissioner remanded her to Jail.
Ex-Congressman Heard of Missouri, who
has been critically ill at Washington, is re-
covering. -
Postof1ices established: Dakota vo.
lin, Yankton county. Minnesota
-Finlayson, Pine county,; Loretto,
Hennepin county. W~isconsin-Rose Lawn,
Shawano county. Postmasters commits.
stoned: Dakota-Devils Lake. H. G.. Ras-
mussen. Iowa-KolIey M. Tanner; Peosta,
j. Kelley; Perlee, J. K. Bates. Minnesota
East Bristol, G. T. Helm.
Rev. A. NJ. Morrison stole a horse and
buggy in Baltimore on the 5th inst, and
Mass. He returned to Baltimore
in charge OF a detective and was
put on trial. Conviction followed, and he
was sentenced to seven years in the peni.
tertiary with hard labor.
r. G. Dune Co., report that the effects
OF the interstate law begin to be percept-
ible on the business OF the country.
Millionaire Croker will give his daugh-
ter Hattie a $3.50, 600 residence in New
York. He has three sons to provide for,
but he is worth $40, 600, 600. =
The Chicago & Northwestern has settled
with upwards OF seventy farmers at High.
more, OAK, for damages from prairie fires
started from their engines last year, pay
ing out $4,000.
A dispatch to a Northwestern paper
some time since stated that Agent William.
son had ordered the arrest of settlers for
cutting fuel on the Grow reservation in
Montana. A letter has been received
from Williamson explaining the matter,
and based upon that letter the acting com.
missioner OF Indian affairs makes the fol-
lowing statement: Agent williamson
writing, April 21, says that for the first
time ne has learned from the Daily Gazette
OF Billings, Mont, OF the reports in circu-
lation throughout Montana and telegraph.
ed East that he had caused the arrest Of
farmers along the borders of the reserva.
ton for taking wood to keep their families
from freezing. Maj. Williamson says that
these reports are not only untrue, but, on
the contrary, he ave special written in.
structions to the deputy United States
marshal assigned to the Grow reservation,
as well as to leading Indians living on the
border, allowing the Indians to cut fallen
and dead timber and sell it for the purpose
OF raising money to assist them in living
and he says that nobody living on the
borders could lave suffered for fuel when
the Indians were authorized to sell it.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster and Helen Cougar
will GO to Europe this month. A reception
will be given them in Boston on May %. +"
The west-bound passenger train on the
Northern Pacific is wrecked near Sterling,
Oak. w. O. Breed of Faribault is killed
Ia several more or less wounded.
John A Logan, Jr., who q few weeks ago
was married to Miss Andrews, daughter OF
Chauncy Andrews, the coal and iron king
of Youngstown, Ohio, has returned from
his honeymoon and begun the active man.
agement Of coal lands given him by his
father.in-law.
Destructive floods prevail in portions of
New England, caused by heavy rains. At.
Waterville, Me-, the Kennebec river has
risen to q greater height than has been
known in Is years. %
Destructive floods prevail in various
parts OF New England. =
Steve Elkins says he never owned any
interest whatever in the Maxwell Land
Grant company.
Claw Dab had a closo coll frou a %or-